Category: Recipes

Enjoy tropical fruits and veggies with these reciepes.

Fall’s harvest salad

Fall's harvest includes pecans, cranberries, and Caribbean Red papayas. We harvest papayas in the fall! The papaya adds a tropical touch to this easy-make salad...

Chayote melon chill

Chayote is refreshing. There's no need to add ice to this smoothie to get the same effect. You can add almost any fruit from the...

Sliders with pork and spicy tropical slaw

You can't beat sliders for get-togethers, whether it's celebrating a big win for the soccer team (kids or professionals) or a night on the deck...

Calabaza maza

If you need a big scoop of butter to enjoy a potato or sweet potato, think about replacing the potato with great tasting calabaza instead....

Mamey Starfruit Smoothie

Mamey Sapote is a rich creamy fruit that eats like a smoothie naturally. So any smoothie made with it is going to be top notch....

Tropical Starfruit Smoothie

I've never had a tropical fruit smoothie that I didn't like. This is no exception. Starfruit and papaya perfect together. ...

Chicken calabaza stew

In the Caribbean, calabaza is also a favorite stew served as a side dish or on top of rice for the main dish....

Roasted calabaza

Calabaza's sweet taste makes it worth the effort to bake some fries. Also calabaza has only half the starch of most starchy veggies (e.g.,...

Calabaza smoothie

Calabaza makes a great power smoothie to bring you back from a hard workout. Bake calabaza for a soup or other recipe, but save some...

Calabaza sweets

Calabaza is already sweet, but for desserts additional sweetness is added. This is a sweet that goes back centuries in Latin America. A version of...